I think she is right!
These battles don’t win themselves. I am not sure WHAT Boehner is up to but it doesn't look good.
Boehner has to contend with the House GOP members, and that means he can't always say what he is really thinking, nor can he make them do what is politically beneficial. I imagine it's like an old purple car I used to have with very loose steering.
Well you got some members who like us wonder why they are cutting FICA/SS taxes without cutting benefits or at least reforming SS for those getting the cuts now. Remember how Democrats beat Bush when he wanted some of the FICA money to go to a savings account? (He should have called it a middle tax cut apparently.) Now Democrats see a winner claiming they don't need that money after all for SS.
Yet it appears politically unacceptable to tell voters that :
1) SS/FICA is directly adding debt to the nation (even though this should be obvious by now).
2)All Obama’s ‘FICA tax cut’ proposals made that problem worse and didn't pay for themselves.
3) Obama is just proposing give-away after give-a-way up until election day and if he gets elected will be taxing the same people to ‘fix’ the massive deficits he has run up
4) Since last year Obama decided to use the Republican house this year and next as a foil and instead of serious proposals he just planned on campaigning for election the FULL two years trying to shift his own responsibility for the mess he created, onto them; And it seems to be working too.
So Republicans have a totally fractured position on how to handle this and Democrats are united.